Yes, but are not most polytheisitc religions simply intended to convey different aspects of an overall divinity that is too big to define anyway?

That's certainly the case in India, and I suspect it was the case with most other polytheistic religions...such as the Roman, the Greek, the Egyptian, the Norse, the American Indian...and so on. Each particular aspect of the divine was given a particular name and personality. People from officially monotheistic religions are missing the point of polytheism, I think, and judging the book by only looking at the cover.

This is the kind of stuff people just love<\i> to argue about... :-)

Now, if you define God as intelligence, consciousness, awareness, existence, potential existence, manifestation, thought, matter, energy, and life itself...then WHO does not believe in that God? Tell me. Atheism is just non-belief in conventional religions...it is not necessarily non-belief in God. Trust me on that. (grin)

- LH